“I expected them to change the list as she’d come so unexpectedly, but Mrs. Brigstow ’ad orders from Mr. Simpson to leave things as they were.”
Lara thought that she knew why Lady Louise had not been placed next to the Marquis, but then she told herself that she did not wish to think about it.
“Show me Lady Brooke’s gowns quickly, Agnes,” she said, “I am scared that if I stay long somebody will see me.”
“No one’s likely to, miss,” Agnes replied. “When there’s an ’ouse party, they eats the same as the ’ouse guests ’ave in the dinin’ room. Mr. Newman and Mrs. Brigstow sees to that. Got to keep up with Easton Lodge and the other ’ouses the Master stays in!”
Lara was sure that it was a competition in which, if things were not better at The Priory than anywhere else, the head servants would
